Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week all San Marino was waiting for the arrival of 70 American migrants who had chartered a plane from New York to Milan. As the returnees drove in, they found the walls plastered with posters of the Communist coalition: "Welcome, compatriot from beyond the sea. We are certain that when you leave again, you won't want to carry back with you the remorse of having betrayed your brothers who have struggled so hard to win today's prosperity." But to the locals, the Communists argued that these were interlopers whose $12,000 plane fare might better...
...belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery, bowled over even the blasé Brahmins of Beacon Hill and led the Boston Herald to call him "a poet of the underworld...
...station was full of Hartford's finest, milling about the assignment desk, waiting their chance to go out and get the registration criminals. They all smiled knowingly when their successful compatriot came in and led me into the Captain's office...
...courage was of the kind that passed belief," said a high officer of British Intelligence. "She had a war record almost without parallel . . . There are at least two British officers who would not be alive today if it were not for her." Moreover, added a distinguished compatriot, "the countess was a most beautiful woman...
...used the name Bloor-borrowed from a Welsh compatriot named Richard Bloor-as an alias while investigating the Chicago packinghouse industry in 1906. Fellow radicals took to calling her Mother Bloor, and the name stuck...